Re: Request binary build info doc. (And run_tests buglet)
You're attempting to run the tests on a system that has no
/lib/ld-lsb.so.1.
Red Hat Linux 7.2 is not a LSB platform, so testing it isn't going to
tell you much beyond what we already know.
Cheers,
Matt
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:06:34PM -0500, Porter, John (Contractor) wrote:
>
> Hi. Recently I downloaded and installed the 1.1.3-1 test binaries
> for Linux. Attempts to execute run_tests failed utterly.
> When sh tried to run tcc, it failed with a "no such file or directory"
> error. Strange, since tcc exists. I'm presuming that a shared lib
> is not found -- but attempts to run ldd on the tcc binary also fail
> with the same error.
>
> So I'm thinking that I will need to build the test suite for my
> platform (RH 7.2) from sources. I don't mind doing so, but I
> wonder why I should have to discover this the hard way.
>
> What I'm proposing is that build info for the binary releases be
> included in some kind of readme collocated with the .rpm.
> It probably ought also to be included in the email by which a
> new binary release is announced.
>
> On a tangential note, run_tests ought to test for tcc failure,
> and abort. As it is, it blows right by the tcc failure and
> produces a much more obscure chokage. (In fact, it would produce
> a hard-to-diagnose bug if tcc succeeds one time and fails later.)
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